@JohnnyO From looking at Blockbuster.com, I see that the 1, 2, 3 disc plans are $11.99, $16.99, and $19.99 a month. Netflix's same plans are $7.99, $11.99, and $15.99 a month. I believe with Bluray it would be 9.99, 14.99, and 19.99. The only way to save money at Blockbuster would be to get the 2 disc 1 at a time plan and use bluray. Otherwise you either pay the same or spend more at Blockbuster.

I think John Gruber at Daring Fireball asked the right question: "Why not the obvious? Mailflix?" There are many variations on "Flix" that Netflix could have bought, and other names like Flickr (my favorite) and Netdisc (both from Gizmodo's list). Dave Zatz worries that it'll be confused with Qu...

@FearNo1 Even if Netflix streaming is usable in Jamaica when you go down there, that doesn't mean you will be able to stream because you will need a Netflix account that includes streaming to that region. For example, I am in the US and I tried activating my friend's X360 in Canada. It worked. She could see my instant queue, but she couldn't stream. We tried this after the dashboard update that made it possible to stream Netflix to X360 in Canada. When she got her own Canadian Netflix account, we tried to link my X360 to her account and I couldn't stream because you need a US account to stream to the US.

Netflix announced this morning that they will launch a Netflix streaming service later this year in 43 Latin American and caribbean countries, including Mexico, Central America and South America. A "wide array" of American, local and global TV shows and movies will be available on computers and ...

@kh99 It seems to me that the RIAA and MPAA have taught us that ethics don't apply in doing business with them because they don't do business ethically. For example, they have excessive fines for the people they prosecute. Some people don't understand how excessive they are so I will explain. When I was a kid, I had a really bad temper and one day in November of 1993, I was 12 years old, and someone pissed me off and I lost control and hit them one time with a baseball bat. My parents payed a few hundred dollars for his hospital bill and i had 4 months of probation. Then about 11 years ago, there was a 12 year old girl named Whitney Harper who got prosecuted for downloading for downloading 40 some songs and they got $150,000 per song.
Also the movie industry tricked people into thinking people actually owned movies when you bought them on DVD in a store, but if you really owned them, it wouldn't be illegal to break the copy protection for the sole purpose of protecting your property. I understand it being illegal to give a copy to someone else, but making a copy for yourself should be ok.
They also attack companies who did nothing wrong such as the one in this story. http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-crippled-revision3/
At the end of that story, they didn't pay a penny for the crime they committed against revision3.com.

USA Today reports that a new law in Tennessee makes it illegal to share a Netflix (or other subscription) account. Although the bill is aimed at hackers or thieves who sell passwords in bulk, its sponsors acknowledge it can be used against anyone using a friend's subscription, particularly bla...

@christopher I totally agree. It's amazing how some people even deal with being online. There is so much stuff on the Internet that needs to be improved, but it just takes a lot of time so you have to just deal with it. Some times it's ok to complain like if you're paying for a service and the imperfection is so high that it makes it seem like it's a waste of money. Netflix isn't close to that level.

With the rising cost of postage and the incredibly low cost to stream a movie, even in HD, it's no wonder Netflix is pushing users towards streaming. A story on Bloomberg/BusinessWeek estimates that it costs Netflix only pennies to stream a movie: The most promising area of growth, Sagan says, ...

Miguel asked if there was a limit to the number of simultaneous Netflix streaming titles you could watch, and according to the Netflix website the maximum number of streams depends on your unlimited plan: Some membership plans allow you to watch simultaneously on more than one personal computer ...

@mndtrp Any time you pay money in exchange for a service, it's not free. Yes, it was added at no additional cost, but that doesn't mean it's free. If it was free, that means you could stream without paying for any thing and if that's the way it was, I would stop giving Netflix money.

Newsweek took a look at Netflix's transition to online streaming, Can Netflix Reinvent Movie-Watching Again? Having grown along with the proliferation of cheap DVD players into the nation’s homes, Netflix is now betting its future on yet another sea change in the way Americans get their movies, ...

Newsweek took a look at Netflix's transition to online streaming, Can Netflix Reinvent Movie-Watching Again? Having grown along with the proliferation of cheap DVD players into the nation’s homes, Netflix is now betting its future on yet another sea change in the way Americans get their movies, ...

@Ze've In case you didn't know, the movie studios has been making money for years and people have been renting DVDs for years without the removal of special features and at that time, the movie studios continued to make money so that's not what we are annoyed about. What we are annoyed about is that we rent a movie and in a lot of cases, watching it that one time had enough value that we don't care to own it, but we would still like the extra features and many of us won't because spending $10-$20 just to watch special features isn't worth it to us.

Are more studios stripping special features from more rental discs to encourage customers to buy the disc? J from PA writes, "I just got The Box (distributed by Warner Home Video) in the mail from Netflix. The disc is gray and says "RENTAL" on it. This is nothing new -- I've seen similarly labe...

The Diffusion Group published a study that found two-thirds of Netflix subscribers with broadband are using streaming, one-third are watching on PCs, 24% on PCs and TVs, and only 8% are streaming on TVs exclusively. “Netflix is now the archetype for over-the-top (OTT) streaming video services,” ...